Images provided by NBC NewsNadya Suleman's octuplets are shown in these undated images. From top left, the octuplets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, Makai, Maliyah, Nariyah, and Noah. The babies with shielded eyes are being treated with light for jaundice.

The story of the California woman who gave birth to octuplets keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.

Turns out Nadya Suleman qualifies for food stamps and three of her six older children get disability payments.

Turns out Suleman's parents begged her fertility doctor not to assist in getting her pregnant again because she was struggling to care for the half-dozen children she already had.

Turns out Suleman's doctor appears to have violated guidelines from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which recommends that a woman under the age of 35 should have no more than two embryos implanted by way of in vitro fertilization.

That explains why the Medical Board of California said last week it was looking into the Suleman case to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care."

The more details that comes out about Suleman's pregnancy, the more it screams to me about the need for tighter regulation in the fertility industry.

My outrage isn't directed so much at Suleman, but her doctors. No question, Suleman's judgment seems shaky: Should an unemployed single mother of six children ages 2 to 7, three of whom are disabled, really add to her brood? Suleman's own mother, Angela Suleman, terms the pregnancy as "unconscionable," saying her daughter has no means to support her family.

Still, Suleman certainly isn't the first person to let her heart overrule her head when it comes to having children, and the real scandal here doesn't involve parental misjudgment but medical ethics. It's one thing for Suleman to yearn for more children; it's quite another for a doctor to enable her flawed dream -- and in a fashion where the result is octuplets.

A spokesman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine told Time magazine that the doctor didn't have the option of refusing Suleman's wishes, that the decision "is in the hands of the patients, not the physicians."

Baloney, medical-ethics expert Arthur Caplan told Time. "Medicine is not a restaurant, and doctors are not waiters," says Caplan, who's at the University of Pennsylvania. "They don't take orders from patients."

If the ASRM spokesman is right and fertility patients really do get to the call the shots, than all the more reason for legislation that would puts some common-sense rules in place. It makes sense to limit the number of eggs implanted during an in vitro procedure, as to limit high-risk multiple births and it makes sense to allow doctors to screen their patients.

Sure, that may be limiting the rights of women such as Suleman. But she's far from the only stakeholder here.

"She really has no idea what she's doing to her children and to me," Angela Suleman told ABC News.

Suleman's mother said she's already overwhelmed caring and providing for her older six grandchildren. "I really need (Nadya) to think of what she's going to do and how she's going to provide for all these children," she said.